Kunstnere på TrAP under Oslo Open
We are hosting four artists who will use our office space as a workspace and studio during Oslo Open.
04.03.2025
During Oslo Open week, TrAP will open its doors to four artists who will use the space as a studio. The artists will also hold an open studio on Saturday, April 26, during Oslo Open weekend, where they will share their ongoing work and processes with the public.
Address: TrAP, Kabelgata 51, 0581 Oslo
Floor: 9th floor
The studio will be open on Saturday, April 26, from 12 noon to 5 p.m.
More information about the four artists and their practices will follow below:
Franzisca Siegrist
(Hun/henne)
Performance, installation, photography, and video
I work primarily with performance art, but also with installation, objects, video, and photography. My performances are physical and visual, and the audience is often taken on a journey through different stages of emotion. The questions I ask are related to migration, belonging, identity, and social norms, and how my own background and everyday life reflect specific aspects of our society. I am interested in contemporary philosophical thinking and how we humans live in our time, while also being concerned with purely artistic and aesthetic forms of expression such as abstraction.
Farhad Kalantary
(Han/ham)
Farhad Kalantary (Tabriz, 1962) is a Norwegian visual artist and curator with Iranian/American roots. He works with film and video installations, sculptures, and art projects in public spaces.
Kalantary studied installation and film at the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, 1996), film and video at San Francisco State University (BA, 1992) and video production at Laney College, Oakland (1987-89).
Kalantary works primarily in a non-narrative context, combining an autobiographical approach with an exploration of the formal and historical aspects of the medium. His film and video works are concerned with the poetics of everyday life, while also exploring the potential of the moving image and the relationship between sound and image. His research includes the history of film and video art in Norway and how different places influence our perception of the world.
Kalatary's works have been shown throughout Norway and abroad, and are part of the collections of Moderna Museum, Oslo Municipality, and KORO. Kalatary also works as an organizer, and was co-founder and artistic director of the artist initiative Atopia: film-video art (2003-17) in Oslo. He lives and works in Nesodden.
Christian Blandhoel
(Han/Ham)
Musical instrument making, readymade hacking, painting, music, drawing, sculpture, multimedia.
Christian Blandhoel is a visual artist and noise musician with a missionary calling.
In 2020/2021, he has been working on Musical Ink paintings. Organizer of Polyføkt noise and experimental music festival. Creates musical instruments as interactive sculptures and as an alternative approach to music (do it yourself) as a concept, through projects such as My First Recordlabel.
Blandhoel has worked as a noise musician (ijin, Hellofriend, kjøttpøkk, etc.). As a visual artist, he works interdisciplinarily with drawing, painting, fanzines, sculpture/mixed media, teddy bear remodeling, collages, digital photography, ink drawings, sound, instrument making, etc.
Hamid Waheed
(Han/Ham)
Film, video, performance, graphics
Hamid Waheed is a trained filmmaker and artist who utilizes the medium of film, as well as writing and performance. His works emphasize the use of characters and dramaturgy in a broad sense. Desire and deviance form the basis for exploring political and psychosocial conditions, as well as speculative actions concerning time, intimacy, and violence. He also explores how history is reproduced and reemerges in various media and archives.
His works have been shown in a number of venues, including the Historical Museum, Fotogalleriet, and Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo); METEOR International Theater Festival and KODE (Bergen); Open Out Festival and Tromsø Kunstforening (Tromsø), Nikolaj Kunsthal and Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (Copenhagen); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. In 2020, he won the Critics' Prize at Nord-Norsken and in 2022 was one of three nominees for the Blix Prize. Waheed is also part of the art collective HÆRK.
